Will Willimon's Lectionary Sermon Resource: Year a Part 1

by William H Willimon

Overview

Will Willimon is widely acclaimed as one of the top ten preachers in the world. For each Sunday of the Christian year, Will provides just what you need to begin the journey toward a sermon. This guide will stoke, fund, and fuel your imagination while leaving plenty of room to insert your own illustrations, make connections within your congregational context, and speak the Word in your distinctive voice. Guidance from Will Willimon is like sitting down with a trusted clergy friend and asking, “What will you preach next Sunday?” Year A Part 1 is part of a six-volume set that includes years A, B, and C (2 volumes per year) in the Revised Common Lectionary. Part 1 includes the First Sunday in Advent through the Easter season. Each week of sermon resources includes: 1. Readings 2. Theme title 3. Introduction to the Readings 4. Encountering the Text 5. Proclaiming the Text 6. Relating the Text

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501847509
Publisher:	Abingdon Press
Publication date:	08/06/2019
Edition description:	Will Willimon's Lectionary Sermon Resource: Year a Part 1 ed.
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Will Willimon is a preacher and teacher of preachers. He is a United Methodist bishop (retired) and serves as Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. For twenty years he was Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. A 1996 Baylor University study named him among the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English speaking world. The Pew Research Center found that Will was one of the most widely read authors among Protestant clergy in 2005. His quarterly Pulpit Resource is used by thousands of pastors throughout North America, Canada, and Australia. In 2021 he gave the prestigious Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale Divinity School. Those lectures became the book, Preachers Dare: Speaking for God which is the inspiration for his ninetieth book, Listeners Dare: Hearing God in the Sermon.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Advent

First Sunday of Advent-Have You Got the Time? 1

Second Sunday of Advent-The Word in the Words 11

Third Sunday of Advent-Expectation and Reality 19

Fourth Sunday of Advent-Unto Us a Child 29

Christmas

Christmas Day-Baby Talk 37

Christmas Day-The Word with Us 47

First Sunday after Christmas/Nativity of Our Lord-Let's Keep Herod in Christmas 55

Second Sunday after Christmas-Amid the Darkness 61

Epiphany

The Epiphany of Our Lord-Arise! Shine! 69

First Sunday after the Epiphany/The Baptism of Our Lord-Miraculous Baptism 75

Second Sunday after the Epiphany/Second Sunday in Ordinary Time-Untidy Lives 85

Third Sunday after the Epiphany /Third Sunday in Ordinary Time-The Long Search 95

Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany/Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time-Message of the Cross 105

Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany/Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time-Teaching (and Doing) What Jesus Commands 115

Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany/Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time-You Have Heard It Said… But 125

Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany/Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time-Christ the Foundation 133

Eighth Sunday after the Epiphany/Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time-Free for Whom? 141

Transfiguration Sunday/Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time-The Fellowship of Fear 149

Lent

First Sunday in Lent-Lenten Contradiction 159

Second Sunday in Lent-The Spirit Blows Where It Will 169

Third Sunday in Lent-Jesus Is Where He Finds You 181

Fourth Sunday in Lent-All I Know Is… 189

Fifth Sunday in Lent-Amid Sickness and Death-Life 199

Passion/Palm Sunday-Passion/Palm Peculiarity 209

Good Friday-Terrifying Friday 217

Good Friday-It Is Finished 225

Easter

Easter Day-Having Not Seen 233

Easter Day-Through Closed Doors 243

Second Sunday of Easter-Resurrection of the Body 253

Third Sunday of Easter-If Easter Is True 261

Fourth Sunday of Easter-The Door 269

Fifth Sunday of Easter-Power Surge 279

Sixth Sunday of Easter-Thinking after Easter 287

Seventh Sunday of Easter-An Antisocial Faith 295

Scripture Index 303